Genie on the Web Five Australian software packages designed to help manage sites on the World Wide Web have proven extremely popular internationally but are only just being noticed at home. The packages have been developed by WebGenie Software, a company founded a year ago by Siva Prasad when he was a researcher in the biochemistry department at the University of Adelaide. (Prasad is now at the Australian National University in Canberra.) "We sold products into 32 countries before selling our first package in South Australia," says Tim Anderson, manager of Luminis, the University of Adelaide's commercial arm. Luminis administers WebGenie Software. The packages include Site*Sleuth which accumulates and analyses information on the sort of people who contact a Web site; CGI*Star which allows Web site operators to respond to customers automatically by sending them information and order forms; and Banner*Show which gives operators the ability to display a series of changing advertisements on their pages. The software, now used in 40 countries, has been bought by General Electric, Lockheed, Compaq and the US Army.

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